Rome: The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis “was in good condition, alert and breathing himself,” the day after he underwent a three-hour surgery involving half the large intestine.
Francis, 84, is expected to live in Gemelli Roma’s polyclinic, a Catholic hospital, for about seven days “restricted complications,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said.
A short medical bulletin contains the first detail the Vatican released, comes more than 12 hours after the end of the operation on Sunday.
This procedure is required by what is said to be the sacred stenosis of diverticular, or narrow the sigmoid part of the whale from the large intestine.
Francis spent his first morning at the Roman hospital after surgery on the left side of his large intestine.
Before Monday’s statement, the Vatican has given a little detail about the operation in Gemelli Polyclinic, a large Catholic hospital in the Italian capital.
A Cardinal Italia told reporters that he had been told that the 84-year-old whale was fine.
“Our prayers and our closeness are very large,” said Cardinal Enrico Feroci at Rome airport where he was on a plane.
The Italian news agency Ansa quoted him said that he had heard before in the morning of another cardinal, Angelo de Donatis, “and he told me that the pope was fine.” De Donatism is the vicar of Rome’s diocese.
Francis lived in a special 10th floor suite stored in a hospital for use by Ponsif after Pope John Paul II lived there several times for various medical problems.
When the Vatican announced on Sunday afternoon that Francis had been received at the hospital for the planned operation, it was said that he needed an operation because he had developed diverticular stenosis, or narrowed, from the large intestinal sigmoid section.
Without quoting the source, Roma Daily Il Messelgger reports that “complications” appear during operation.
Without determining what happened, the newspaper said that the surgeon, after starting operating through Laparoscopy, finally had to do an incision.
Laparoscopy is a type of surgical procedure that is often nicknamed “keyhole operation” because it allows surgeons access to the inside of the stomach without the need for a big incision.
In the type of operation, the Vatican says the Pope gets, laparoscopy is generally used, experts say.
Patients who undergo laparoscopic surgery generally need a shorter hospital inap.
Updates twice a day in Francis’s condition is expected to be released by the Vatican.
The doctor not connected with the Pope’s hospitalization has said it is common to cut back the affected part of the intestine in such cases.
Recovery messages continue to arrive for the Pope.
The Italian Premier Office Mario Draghi said the leader “expressed a loving desire for fast recovery and quick healing.”